Huge tumor successfully removed from baby's lip
A huge tumor on the upper lip of a newborn baby has been successfully removed at the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, six days after birth, the hospital announced on Tuesday.
The baby from Jiangxi Province, named Ranran, was born with the tumor, which not only terrified the parents but also restricted her ability to feed, leaving her crying.
The parents brought her to the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center three days later, where doctors found the lip mucous coat around the tumor had become necrotic and ulcerated, and that the baby was also suffering from a fever.
Doctors warned that the tumor would continue expanding and that tumor necrosis might cause systemic toxemic symptoms and harm the baby's organs.
Ranran, weighing only 2,900 grams, underwent surgery last week. Doctors cut off the tumor and also conducted plastic surgery to repair her lip.
The surgeries were highly risky as the tumor impeded her air passage. Pathological examination showed that it was an infantile fibrosarcoma.
Doctors said that it was rare to see such a tumor affecting someone's lips.
